Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.

To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?

Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.

A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.

Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.

As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

The adversaries main goal is to confuse & discourage the great.

Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.

A person is not really gone until everyone who knew them is gone.

A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.

My life has been a series of emergencies.

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic catacombs as O'Hare's reception center in Chicago.

We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purposes of sense or happiness.